MLA

From 1st October 2011, this site will not be updated, so please treat it as the static archive it is. This is because Arts Council England has now taken over museums and libraries responsibilities. The National Archives has assumed responsibility for strategic...

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Community groups running libraries, private sector funding and self-service book borrowing points in shops and village halls can play a vital role in delivering a library service fit for the 21st century, council leaders have said in a joint report on the future of libraries.

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Collections, library and archive of the Royal Academy of Arts; the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library at the English Folk Dance and Song Society; and the entire holdings of Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Archive Service are the latest collections to join the Scheme.

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Funding to support museums, libraries and archives to run community projects that will generate materials for The People’s Record is now available.

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Bolton will maintain full Accredited Status after the Committee meet to consider planned sales to provide funds to make collections more accessible to the public.

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Consultation on a new online application system for export licensing opens to the art, antiques and export shipping trade sector in a round table session on 25 July.

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An award winning project which trained 92 staff and volunteers from 55 museums in the Southwest in conservation for photographic collections.

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The creation of oral history recordings and transcripts, a book and a website celebrating Nottingham's Italian community.

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A partnership project between the Galleries of Justice Museum in Nottingham (GJM) Her Majesty’s Prison Sudbury, Nottingham Trent University and the National Centre for Citizenship and the Law (NCCL) is proving to have positive outcomes for all concerned.

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Digitisation of BMAG's Pre-Raphaelite collection has opened up access for interested users worldwide.

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SROI is a complex and revealing methodology which avoids the imprecision of qualitative and blandness of quantitative evaluation.

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One of the projects at the heart of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.

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MLA's Museum Accreditation Scheme sets out nationally agreed standards for museums in the UK. There are currently over 1800 museums participating in the Scheme, demonstrating their commitment to managing collections effectively for the enjoyment of all communities.

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MLA’s Designation Scheme identifies the pre-eminent collections of national and international importance held in England's non-national museums, libraries and archives.

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MLA is widely engaged in promoting and protecting our cultural heritage. This includes servicing export licensing, the acceptance of iconic artefacts in lieu of inhertiance tax and operating the Government Indemnity Scheme.

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MLA develops a national action plan for museums, charting a future based on the museum sector working together on - Supporting Excellence; Promoting Partnerships and Building Capacity

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LGA Group and MLA will work together to support councils, especially where councils want to work together in partnership; by introducing and brokering councils to work together and help them to establish new delivery mechanisms to build economies of scale and sustainable critical mass. The LGA group and MLA would also aim to engage the library professional bodies in this work.

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